Seminars of Section Algebra Geometry

 

Prof. Dr. Henning Krause

Universitaet Bielefeld

Fakultaet fuer Mathematik

Postfach 100 131

D-33 501 Bielefeld

http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~hkrause/


University of Ioannina

Department of Mathematics

28 September 2010


Henning Krause


CLASSIFYING REPRESENTATIONS OF FINITE GROUPS


ABSTRACT


This talk starts with an introduction to the representation

theory of finite groups. The basic challenge is to classify for a given

finite group all its linear representations. I will explain how support

varieties and cohomological methods are used, providing beautiful links to

other parts of mathematics, such as geometry and topology.